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US airstrike in Syria kills jihadi bombmaker, a French convert to Islam

Nov 7, 2014 10:55 am By Robert Spencer

Daoud Drugeon“The two brothers quickly converted to Islam and David became known as ‘Daoud’, started learning Arabic and studied the Koran.” But despite his study of the Muslim holy book, he eventually came to misunderstand it so severely as to think it had something to do with committing acts of violence against unbelievers. If only Barack Obama or David Cameron had been there to explain to him the true, peaceful Islam.

“‘Dead’ French bombmaker: a football fan turned jihadist,” AFP, November 6, 2014:

From football stadiums to international jihad, the 24-year-old Frenchman who was likely killed in US air strikes in Syria converted as a teen to Islam before joining increasingly radical groups.

David Drugeon is thought to have been travelling in a car in Syria’s Idlib province when a drone strike hit the vehicle and likely killed him and the driver, a US official and media reports said Thursday.

Born in 1989 in the western city of Vannes into a middle-class family, he became passionate about football and would travel to the southern city of Marseille with his father to see his favourite team, OM, play.

When his parents divorced in 2002, Drugeon and his brother Cyril drew close to ultraconservative Salafist Muslims who would gather in their district.

The two brothers quickly converted to Islam and David became known as “Daoud”, started learning Arabic and studied the Koran.

On his page on “Copains d’avant”, a Facebook-style French website, he is seen posing in a white shirt, unsmiling.

On his list of “countries I dream of going to”, he wrote: “Afghanistan, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Iraq, Israel, Morocco, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, Syria.”

“He was a really nice guy who didn’t cause trouble. A football enthusiast,” a former classmate in Vannes who wanted to remain anonymous told AFP.

A woman whose daughter was in his class added: “His father was a bus driver. The boy studied hard. We don’t understand what went through his head.”

After having worked and saved money, Drugeon eventually went to Egypt and studied in religious schools where he deepened his knowledge of the Koran and of Arabic.

He returned to France and at the start of 2010, and told his family he was going back to Egypt. But like many other international volunteers, he went down the jihad route and travelled to tribal zones in Pakistan.

There he met a Belgian man of Tunisian origin, jihad veteran Moez Garsallaoui who was considered as an important member of Al-Qaeda in Europe and then in the Pakistan-Afghanistan region.

He taught “Daoud” how to handle explosives and make bombs.

A security source, who asked not to be identified, said he became a “relatively good” explosives expert….

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  1. moses says

    Nov 7, 2014 at 11:39 am

    one’s thing for sure no 72 virgins for him

  2. albert says

    Nov 7, 2014 at 12:03 pm

    Soooo glad this dirtbag is dead, somehow it seems like a bonus when one of the European or British converts gets blown to bits.

    • Aardvark says

      Nov 7, 2014 at 5:26 pm

      Actually, he doesn’t look French, assuming that’s his photo at the top of the page. He looks more middle-eastern, to me. Were both of his parents French?

      • inMAGICn says

        Nov 7, 2014 at 7:12 pm

        First name David. Hmmmm??

  3. Buraq says

    Nov 7, 2014 at 12:15 pm

    C’est la vie! Clown!

    But why did Allah want him dead? After all, only Allah can decide when it’s time to go! Imagine being so stupid as to fight on behalf of a Being who’s planning to rub you out.
    Who’s the bigger schmuck, David or Allah? Hard to tell.

    • St. Patrick says

      Nov 7, 2014 at 7:57 pm

      Tqa

  4. Ruy Diaz says

    Nov 7, 2014 at 12:29 pm

    “But despite his study of the Muslim holy book, he eventually came to misunderstand it so severely as to think it had something to do with committing acts of violence against unbelievers.”

    This snark never gets old. Islam must be the most misunderstood religion ever.

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Nov 7, 2014 at 1:50 pm

    This guy had thrown his life away not only for a wrong cause but also a false cause.

  6. Blameitonthemoonlight says

    Nov 7, 2014 at 1:52 pm

    Well I really hope some of the extortionate tax I pay helped to fund the missile that took this disgusting foolish brainwashed criminal, straight into the pits of hell (or should I say ‘pits of nothing’ as fairy stories are for kids?).

  7. mortimer says

    Nov 7, 2014 at 4:35 pm

    A waste of a life. A rather ordinary and decent young man perverted by this Death Cult ideology…normative Islam.

    Allah created Muslims to be hunters of kafirs…to hunt them down and be rewarded for murdering them. The reward on earth is sex slaves and plunder. The reward in Islamic paradise is sex slaves and wealth.

    Moronic and incredible nonsense.

  8. R Cole says

    Nov 7, 2014 at 5:52 pm

    No doubt he heard the message that Islam meant peace.

    Then it is a matter of ~ in for a penny in for a pound.

    But he is now a believer and a follower ~ of Muhammad.

    ::

    Not sure how long we can go on without truth ~ in respect to this religion.

    This is the dark side of faith.

    A boy who was normal – is now dead fighting for some absurd 1400 yr-old cause – on some distant battlefield.

    ::

    A Challenge

    Where is our freedom of conscience? If people could say – I believe Islam is not about peace – and there is nothing wrong with me. It is my right to believe as I choose.

    Let’s see them challenge that – and on what grounds.

    The anti-religious belief.
    The human right to anti-religious beliefs.
    Anti-religious freedoms.

    ::

    Sadly the boy was a convert-pawn – in the larger Arab game of conquest.
    He become convert-fodder for Islamic rule.
    Next!!

  9. Mirren10 says

    Nov 7, 2014 at 6:05 pm

    ” … 24-year-old Frenchman … ”

    *Not* a Frenchman.

    He looks as if he was the child of immigrants, and he clearly lived in an area with a high number of mohammedans. ”Drugeon and his brother Cyril drew close to ultraconservative Salafist Muslims who would gather in their district”.

    If he wasn’t actually a mohammedan, but converted, he chose to throw France in the gutter, and embrace the umma.

    Good riddance to bad rubbish.

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